>Unless you're a gamer, there's no reason to care
Whoa.....or unless you want to get into OpenCL or DirectCompute programming (which I suspect a lot of your readers will end up wanting to learn, even if they don't realize it right now). If you are one of us, you *definitely* want to pay special attention to which triple output video card you upgrade to.

As far as I'm concerned, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen space. By "screen", I mean not just large monitors, but multiple large monitors. I've been evangelizing multiple monitors since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition: Multiple Monitors and Productivity...

I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...